| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | DEFINITIONS FROM THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY $600: Under P:
"A play in which the story is told without violence to the language" a pantomime |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $2000: No one knows why the blank scroll in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx on the gravestone of this seafaring novelist Melville |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $400: It describes Shakespeare's pentameter iambic |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | MESSAGE IN A BATTLE $1,000 (Daily Double): The English crushed the Highland clans at Culloden Moor in 1746; message to this would-be king:
Stop pretending! Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward, the Pretender) |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): To Ian McEwan, there is no redemption, no amends, no this, the title of his novel made into a 2007 movie with Saoirse Ronan Atonement |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $400: An iconic 1930 image:
"____ Gothic" American |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $800: From 1912, more mechanical than nude: "Nude Descending a ____, No. 2" Staircase |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $1600: Picasso cubed it:
"Les Demoiselles d'____" Avignon |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $2000: Francisco Goya:
"The 3rd of ____, 1808" May |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $4,000 (Daily Double): A group portrait by Rembrandt:
"The ____ ____
(The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq)" The Night Watch |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | SO THAT'S WHAT THOSE LYRICS SAY! $400: "Got a long list of ex-lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane" is in "Blank Space" but her mom heard it as "got a lot of Starbucks lovers" Taylor Swift |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | BURT BACHARACH $1600: Burt was married to this actress in the years she made "Point Blank", "Big Bad Mama" & "Dressed to Kill" (Angie) Dickinson |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: While he popularized the concept, John Locke didn't actually use this term for the idea that the mind is a blank slate at birth tabula rasa |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | POP CULTURE HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS $1600: As the title of a John Cusack movie sums up, Martin Blank is a hitman going to his reunion in this Detroit suburb Grosse Pointe |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | BLANK VERSE $400: "Candy is dandy but ____ is quicker" liquor |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | BLANK VERSE $800: "A thing of ____ is a joy for ever: its loveliness increases" beauty |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | BLANK VERSE $1200: "But there is no joy in ____--Mighty Casey has struck out" Mudville |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | BLANK VERSE $1600: "I have a rendezvous with ____ at some disputed barricade" death |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | BLANK VERSE $2000: "In the room the women come and go talking of ____" Michelangelo |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $800: With 1587's "Tamburlaine the Great", Christopher Marlowe, not Shakespeare, set the stage for the use of this verse in drama iambic pentameter (blank verse) |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $200: "'Please, sir,' replied Oliver,
'I want ____ ____'" some more |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $400: "Honour the charge they made! Honour the ____ ____, noble six hundred!" Light Brigade |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $600: "Stay ____,
Ponyboy.
Stay ____" gold |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $800: "The deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the 'House of ____!'" Usher |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $1000: "When ____ last in the dooryard bloom'd, and the great star early droop'd in the western sky" lilacs |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | FRENCH PHRASES $1600: Full discretionary power or freedom, like being handed a blank paper carte blanche |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | SAN DIEGO: NEWS CLUES $600: (Sheena Parveen of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) In 1986, the San Diego Museum of Arts mounted the first ever retrospective exhibit for this longtime La Jolla resident who had recently been named one of San Diego’s living treasures Dr. Seuss |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | NON-ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTS $800: It's commonly known as a lie detector a polygraph |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | PHIL & THE BLANK $200: He won 11 NBA titles as coach of the Bulls & Lakers:
Phil ____ Jackson |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | PHIL & THE BLANK $400: The Genesis of his hall of fame career was a toy drum kit he got as a kid:
Phil ____ Collins |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | PHIL & THE BLANK $600: With brother Don, he had a hit with "Wake Up Little Susie":
Phil ____ Everly |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | PHIL & THE BLANK $800: He got his own TV show in 2002:
Dr. Phil ____ McGraw |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | PHIL & THE BLANK $1000: He put the Swoosh in Nike:
Phil ____ Phil Knight |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $400: Whitman: "Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread, walk the deck my ____ lies, fallen cold and dead" my Captain |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $800: Eliot: "April is the ____ ____ breeding lilacs out of the dead land" the cruelest month |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $1200: Silverstein: "There is a place where ____ ____ ____ and before the street begins, and there the grass grows soft and white" the sidewalk ends |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $2000: Byron: "She walks in ____, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies" beauty |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $2,400 (Daily Double): Kipling: "Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and--which is more--you'll be a ____, ____ ____!" man, my son |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | MODERN ART $800: In the early '80s Keith Haring began drawing graffiti on blank black advertising panels inside these places around New York City subway stations |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | LET THERE BE ENLIGHTENMENT $800: Enlightenment thinkers revived the concept of the human mind at birth as a blank slate to be written on, this 2-word Latin phrase tabula rasa |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | DIFFERS BY ONE LETTER $400: To close & open the eyes; free from marks or writing blink & blank |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | EMPTY WORDS $400: Tabula rasa is often translated as this 5-letter "slate" blank |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | BLANK "UM" $200: The National one, located in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, has a water capacity of more than 2.2 million gallons aquarium |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | BLANK "UM" $400: A TV P.I., or a large wine bottle a Magnum |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | BLANK "UM" $600: It's the flowering plant seen here a geranium |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | BLANK "UM" $800: In an old-fashioned grandfather clock, it swings back & forth regulating the time & causing the tick tock, tick tock a pendulum |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | BLANK "UM" $1000: This component of plaster of Paris is hydrous calcium sulfate gypsum |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | HE SCORES! $800: Former Clash frontman Joe Strummer scored this 1997 black comedy starring John Cusack as a conflicted hitman Grosse Pointe Blank |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | WHAT THE BLANK? $200: Literally, it's a bank draft that is signed but with the amount left empty a blank check |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | WHAT THE BLANK? $400: Standard versions of this board game have 2 blank tiles that can be any letter but are worth zero points Scrabble |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | WHAT THE BLANK? $600: This phrase meaning to be failed by your memory probably comes from a lottery where losing tickets had nothing written on them draw a blank |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | WHAT THE BLANK? $800: A documentary about this game show hosted by Gene Rayburn & later Alec Baldwin is subtitled "Behind the Blank" Match Game |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | WHAT THE BLANK? $1000: John Milton used this unrhymed pentameter in "Paradise Lost" blank verse |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | THE BOOK OF JOB $800: Thomas Hardy:
"The ____ of Casterbridge" Mayor |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | THE BOOK OF JOB $1200: John le Carre:
"The Night ____" Manager |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | THE BOOK OF JOB $1600: John Fowles:
"The French ____'s Woman" Lieutenant |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | THE BOOK OF JOB $2000: C.S. Lewis:
"The ____'s Nephew" Magician |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | FILL IN THE ANIMAL MOVIE QUOTES $800: "West Side Story": "The ___ are gonna have their way." "The Jets are gonna have their day" the Sharks |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | YOUR 4 "I"s ONLY $1600: Look it up online! In Hawaiian this double talk word means "quickly" wikiwiki |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | HODGEPODGE $1000: His 1690 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" argues for the "blank slate" view that all knowledge is from experience (John) Locke |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | THE ANDES MOUNTAINS $800: Over its some 5,000-mile range, the Andes are home to major cities like La Paz, Quito, and this other capital city Bogota |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | DON'T BLANK ON THE MENU $200: McDonald's: 4-piece Chicken ___ McNuggets |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | DON'T BLANK ON THE MENU $400: Red Lobster: Hand-Battered ___ & ___ Fish & Chips |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | DON'T BLANK ON THE MENU $600: Dunkin': Munchkins Donut ___ Holes |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | DON'T BLANK ON THE MENU $800: Starbucks: Java Chip ___ Blended Beverage a Frappuccino |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | DON'T BLANK ON THE MENU $1000: Denny's: ___ ___ Slugger Grand Slam |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | SONGS FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY $200: George Michael:
"____ Figure" Father |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | SONGS FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY $400: Kansas:
"Carry On Wayward ____" Son |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | SONGS FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY $600: Elmo & Patsy:
"____ Got Run Over By A Reindeer" Grandma |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | SONGS FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY $800: D.J. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince:
"____ Just Don't Understand" Parents |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | BLANK-"ISH" $200: Gory horror movies are not for these people who are easily nauseated squeamish |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | BLANK-"ISH" $400: To add fake details to a real story to make it sound better embellish |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | BLANK-"ISH" $600: In a chemical reaction, sulfur combines with silver to create this dark coating tarnish |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | BLANK-"ISH" $800: Estuaries & swamps have this type of water not quite as briny as the ocean brackish |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | BLANK-"ISH" $1000: This, another word for a fanfare, means the king has arrived a flourish |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): When Medgar Evers was gunned down in 1963, he was the Mississippi field secretary of this national organization the NAACP |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | KIDDIE LIT TITLE ADJECTIVES $200: A series by Jeff Kinney:
"Diary of a ____ Kid" Wimpy |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | KIDDIE LIT TITLE ADJECTIVES $400: "The ____ Wizard of Oz" Wonderful |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | KIDDIE LIT TITLE ADJECTIVES $600: By Natalie Babbitt:
"Tuck ____" Everlasting |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | KIDDIE LIT TITLE ADJECTIVES $800: By Eric Carle:
"The Very ____ Spider" Busy |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | KIDDIE LIT TITLE ADJECTIVES $1000: About an endearing 3-legged critter:
"The ____ Donkey" Wonky |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | MOVIE FOREIGN CITIES $1600: 1989:
"Jesus of ____" (not in the Holy Land) Montreal |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | MOVIE FOREIGN CITIES $2000: 1959:
"____, My Love" or "mon amour", if you prefer Hiroshima |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | BRAND NAMES: SPELL IN THE BLANK $200: Play-____ modeling compound D-O-H |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | BRAND NAMES: SPELL IN THE BLANK $400: Making pictures with illuminated pegs:
Lite-____ B-R-I-T-E |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | BRAND NAMES: SPELL IN THE BLANK $600: "Silly rabbit! ____ are for kids" T-R-I-X |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | BRAND NAMES: SPELL IN THE BLANK $800: ____-It crackers come in flavors like Cheddar Jack, White Cheddar & Hot & Spicy C-H-E-E-Z |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | BRAND NAMES: SPELL IN THE BLANK $1000: Double ____ Oreo Cookies are twice as creme-y as the regular kind S-T-U-F |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | BLANK THAT GUY $200: Connived his way to control of the New York City Treasury in the 1870s:
William "____" ____ "Boss" Tweed |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | BLANK THAT GUY $400: Alliterative SS chief:
Heinrich ____ Himmler |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | BLANK THAT GUY $600: Ran a brutal gang in Prohibition-era NYC:
Dutch ___ Schultz |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | BLANK THAT GUY $800: Shot near a Virginia farmhouse in April 1865:
____ ____ ____ John Wilkes Booth |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | BLANK THAT GUY $1000: Took over in Cambodia in 1975:
____ ____ Pol Pot |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | SHAKESPEAREAN DOUBLE BLANK VERSE $400: "Henry IV, Part 2":
"He hath eaten me out of ____ and ____" house and home |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | SHAKESPEAREAN DOUBLE BLANK VERSE $800: "Julius Caesar":
"____ tu, ____?" "Et tu, Brute?" |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | SHAKESPEAREAN DOUBLE BLANK VERSE $1200: "Henry VI, Part 2":
"The first thing we do, let's ____ all the ____" "let's kill all the lawyers" |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | SHAKESPEAREAN DOUBLE BLANK VERSE $1600: "Romeo and Juliet":
"It is the ____, and Juliet is the ____" "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | SHAKESPEAREAN DOUBLE BLANK VERSE $2000: A double double blank, from "Macbeth": "____ is ____, and ____ is ____" "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | 4-LETTER FILL IN THE BLANK $200: "The handwriting is on the ____" the wall |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | 4-LETTER FILL IN THE BLANK $400: "Don't have too many irons in the ____" fire |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | 4-LETTER FILL IN THE BLANK $600: "Loose ____ sink ships" lips |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | 4-LETTER FILL IN THE BLANK $800: "Don't put the ____ before the horse" cart |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | 4-LETTER FILL IN THE BLANK $1000: "____ is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul" hope |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | THE COMMON FACTOR $200: Track &
____ &
Stream field |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | THE COMMON FACTOR $400: Arm &
____ &
sickle hammer |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | THE COMMON FACTOR $600: Brick &
____ &
pestle mortar |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | THE COMMON FACTOR $800: Summer &
____ &
mirrors smoke |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | THE COMMON FACTOR $1000: Torvill &
____ &
DeLuca Dean |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | FILM IN THE BLANK $400: The making of a rock journalist:
"Almost ____" famous |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | FILM IN THE BLANK $800: Geena & Susan played them:
"____ & ____" Thelma & Louise |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | FILM IN THE BLANK $1200: "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and ____ ____ ____" love the bomb |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | FILM IN THE BLANK $1600: "The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But ____ ____ ____ ____" came down a mountain |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | FILM IN THE BLANK $2000: From 2004:
"Eternal ____ ____ ____ ____ ____" sunshine of the spotless mind |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | GOING BLANK ON THE TITLE $200: After "Little House", there was "Little Town on the ____" prairie |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | GOING BLANK ON THE TITLE $400: By Strunk & White:
"The Elements of ____" style |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | GOING BLANK ON THE TITLE $600: A Savannah story:
"____ in the Garden of Good and Evil" midnight |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | GOING BLANK ON THE TITLE $800: A reinterpretation of the gospels:
"The Last ____ of Christ" temptation |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | GOING BLANK ON THE TITLE $1000: A memoir by Joan Didion:
"The Year of ____ Thinking" Magical |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | BLANK "UM" $400: It's no child left behind when this marsupial mom is on the move opossum |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | BLANK "UM" $800: Its popularity comes & goes but flooring made of this has been around since the 1860s linoleum |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | BLANK "UM" $1200: Seen here is one of these easy-to-make, glass-enclosed miniature gardens a terrarium |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | BLANK "UM" $1600: The anti-anxiety drug Diazepam was introduced in 1963 under this trade name Valium |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | BLANK "UM" $2000: The ruins of this school in Athens founded by Aristotle have recently opened to the public the Lyceum |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | WHAT'S THE POINT? $800: A place in Texas is named this, a range from which a shooter can't possibly miss Point Blank |
| #7906, aired 2019-01-14 | THEY GOT THE MEMO $2000: Germany's "Blank Check" memo of July 1914 promised support for any action this country took against Serbia Austria-Hungary |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | HODGEPODGE $2000: This is a blank page at the beginning or end of a book, not a spot for bugs to gather on a plant a flyleaf |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | BLANK NEWS $200: It airs every Sunday morning on ABC:
"This ____" This Week |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | BLANK NEWS $400: U.K.-born Katty Kay presents it:
"____ World News America" BBC |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | BLANK NEWS $600: It's on CNN from 4 to 6 A.M. Eastern time:
"____ Start" Early Start |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | BLANK NEWS $800: With Steve, Ainsley & Brian:
"Fox ____ ____" & friends |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | BLANK NEWS $1000: Get your fill of business in the afternoon:
"Power ____" Power Lunch |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | WORDS FROM THE COMICS $400: This character inspired a suit, a collar & shoe with his name Buster Brown |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | 5, 5 $400: This, with a signature but no amount entered, has come to mean "unrestricted authority" a blank check |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | BODY LANGUAGE $200: "Cut off your ____ to spite your face" nose |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | BODY LANGUAGE $800: "Rack your ____" brain |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | BODY LANGUAGE $1000: "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their ____" bones |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $200: Cited by Machiavelli & used as a political weapon:
"Divide & ____" conquer |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $400: Associated with architect Mies van der Rohe:
"Less is ____" more |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $600: While "one good turn deserves another", be warned that "no good deed goes ____" unpunished |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $800: A proverb from "Poor Richard's Almanack":
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are ____" dead |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $1000: Alluding to a pompous puppet character:
"Pleased as ____" Punch |
| #7719, aired 2018-03-15 | '80s MUSIC $2,800 (Daily Double): Him: "Well, I knew I was in trouble now
my hope of winning sank 'cause I got the Daily Double now & then my mind went blank" Weird Al |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $400: Both from 1960: "Ocean's ____" times "The Magnificent ____" 77 |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $800: "The ____ Year-Old Virgin" minus "The Dirty ____" 28 |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $1600: "Gone in ____ Seconds" plus "Assault on Precinct ____" 73 |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $2000: "(____) Days of Summer" times "____ Heads in a Duffel Bag" 4000 |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | TV COMEDY ADJECTIVES $200: "____ Kimmy Schmidt" Unbreakable |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | TV COMEDY ADJECTIVES $400: Featuring the Cunninghams,
"____ Days" Happy |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | TV COMEDY ADJECTIVES $600: Here's a hint: it was based on a movie & starred Rachel Blanchard as Cher Horowitz,
"____" Clueless |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | TV COMEDY ADJECTIVES $800: On Bravo, starring Jill Kargman,
"____ Mom Out" Odd |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | TV COMEDY ADJECTIVES $1000: Starring Sally Field:
"The ____ Nun" Flying |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | BLANK "UM" $200: It's what the "P" stands for in OPEC petroleum |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | BLANK "UM" $400: Pit's partner in a Poe title the pendulum |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | BLANK "UM" $600: Located in Buenos Aires, it's the type of building & museum seen here planetarium |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | BLANK "UM" $800: The ancient city of Troy was also known by this Latin name, similar to a Homer title Ilium |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | BLANK "UM" $1000: In the classification of organisms, it comes between "class" and "kingdom" phylum |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | THE EYE $600: In surgery for this condition, an artificial lens replaces your own clouded one cataracts |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | ART SUPPLIES $200: "Une toile vierge" is the French equivalent of the English expression "a blank" this canvas |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | SHAKE, RATTLE & ROLL WITH SCIENCE $600: Also meaning to upset someone, it's a fancy chemistry word for "shake", as in "Stopper the tube & ____ the solution" agitate |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | FILL IN THE ____ $400: Original title of "The Star-Spangled Banner":
"Defence Of Fort ____" McHenry |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | FILL IN THE ____ $800: Herculean labor:
Cleaning the ____ of King Augeas stables |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | FILL IN THE ____ $1600: Named for physicist Georg:
____'s law of electrical resistance Ohm |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | FILL IN THE ____ $2000: A Matisse work:
"The Joy of ____" Life |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | THE BOOK OF VERBS $600: "____ with Scissors" by Augusten Burroughs Running |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | THE BOOK OF VERBS $800: "Hannibal ____" by Thomas Harris Rising |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | THE BOOK OF VERBS $1000: "We Need to ____ About Kevin" by Lionel Shriver talk |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | WHAT COLOR IS YOUR BUSINESS? $400: A hotel chain:
____ Roof Inn Red |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | WHAT COLOR IS YOUR BUSINESS? $600: Offering frothy fruit drinks:
____ Julius Orange |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | WHAT COLOR IS YOUR BUSINESS? $800: Helping home chefs:
____ Apron Blue |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "F" $1600: If you've written a book & are autographing a copy, this blank page is a good one to use the flyleaf |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | GOOD WILL $1200: Shakespeare was a master of this poetic pattern, unrhymed iambic pentameter, & even used the term in "Hamlet" blank verse |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $200: Poe: "Once upon a midnight dreary, / while I pondered, weak and ___" weary |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $400: Nash: "Behold the duck. / It does not cluck. / A cluck it lacks. It ____" quacks |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $600: Sandburg: "The fog comes on little ____ feet" cat |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $800: Angelou: "You may cut me with your eyes, / You may kill me with your hatefulness, / But still, like air, I'll ____" rise |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $1000: Frost: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- / I took the one less ____ ____" traveled by |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $400: Through greed or stupidity you may "kill the goose that lays the ____ ____" golden egg |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $600: A tenet of the Republican Party: "That government is best which governs ____" least |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $800: Stop dragging your feet, because "___ & ___ wait for no man" time & tide |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $1000: Attributed to Napoleon: "the English are a nation of ____s" shopkeepers |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | LITERARY NUMBER, PLEASE $200: Garcia Marquez' "____ Years of Solitude" 100 |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | LITERARY NUMBER, PLEASE $400: Conan Doyle's "The Sign of ____" four |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | LITERARY NUMBER, PLEASE $800: Daniel Pyne's "____ Palms" Twentynine |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | LITERARY NUMBER, PLEASE $1000: Leon Uris' "Mila ____" 18 |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | RELATIVE POP CULTURE $2000: Joan Cusack is the secretary to brother John's professional killer in this 1997 movie Grosse Pointe Blank |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | A WHITMAN SAMPLER $1000: "I ____ myself, and sing myself" celebrate |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | IN THE ____ OF BATTLE $400: Named for some big old structures nearby, the 1798 fight in which the French took Cairo:
Battle of the ____ Pyramids |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | IN THE ____ OF BATTLE $800: 1658 on a beach near Dunkirk, named for the sand formations on which it was fought:
Battle of the ____ Dunes |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | IN THE ____ OF BATTLE $1200: Tennessee, 1863:
Battle of Lookout ____ Mountain |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | IN THE ____ OF BATTLE $1600: 1813 fight in which Tecumseh was killed near a river in Ontario, not central London:
Battle of the ____ Thames |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | IN THE ____ OF BATTLE $2000: 1939-45 struggle in which Allied destroyers & German U-boats disputed control of vital sea lanes:
Battle of the ____ Atlantic |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | KEY WORDS $600: It's the empty term for a key that hasn't been cut to fit a specific lock a blank |
| #7303, aired 2016-05-18 | DEEP THOUGHTS $800: Hiram Johnson:
"The first casualty when war comes is ____" truth |
| #7303, aired 2016-05-18 | DEEP THOUGHTS $5,000 (Daily Double): Richard Nixon:
"When the president does it, that means that it is not ____" illegal |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | COUNTRY MUSIC $1600: David Bowie,
1983:
"____ Girl" China |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | COUNTRY MUSIC $2000: The Dead Kennedys,
1980:
"Holiday In ____" Cambodia |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | 5 COMMANDMENTS $200: "Thou shalt have no ____ ____ before me" other gods |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | 5 COMMANDMENTS $600: "Thou shalt not ____ thy neighbour's house" covet |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | 5 COMMANDMENTS $800: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any ____ image" graven |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | 5 COMMANDMENTS $1000: "Thou shalt not take the name of the ____ ____ ____ ____ ____" the Lord, thy God, in vain |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | THUS SAYETH THE LORD $400: To Moses:
"When thou goest to return into ____, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh" Egypt |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | THUS SAYETH THE LORD $2000: To Noah:
"With thee will I establish my ____" covenant |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | MASTER OF NONE $400: I'm giving you this type of check with no dollar amount--fill in $400 blank check |
| #7248, aired 2016-03-02 | MISSING LINKS $200: Fall from ____ period grace |
| #7248, aired 2016-03-02 | MISSING LINKS $800: Baptism of ____ fighter fire |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | SPORTS RULES FILL IN THE BLANK $200: NBA:
"An offensive ____ is illegal contact, committed by an offensive player, after the ball is live" foul |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | SPORTS RULES FILL IN THE BLANK $400: MLB:
"The ____ shall not... expectorate on the ball, either hand or his glove" pitcher |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | SPORTS RULES FILL IN THE BLANK $600: NFL:
"Any forward pass (legal or illegal) is ____ and the ball is dead immediately if the pass strikes the ground" incomplete |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | SPORTS RULES FILL IN THE BLANK $800: MLB:
"The second game of a ____ shall start twenty minutes after the first game is completed" doubleheader |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | SPORTS RULES FILL IN THE BLANK $1000: NBA:
"A team must attempt a field goal within ____ seconds after gaining possession of the ball" 24 |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $200: Van Gogh's "Self-Portrait with Pipe and Bandaged ____" ear |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $400: Jonathan Buttall is thought to be Gainsborough's model for "The ____ Boy" Blue |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $600: Seurat got to the point in "A ____ Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" Sunday |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $800: Duchamp caused a scandal with his "Nude Descending a ____, No. 2" staircase |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $1000: Dali gave it a name that stuck: "The Persistence of ____" memory |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | WITHIN THE FICTIONAL PLANET $3,000 (Daily Double): Insolence in the "Doctor Who" planet gall (in Gallifrey) |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | QUOTATIONS BY THE NUMBER $800: Princess Diana:
"There were ____ of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded" 3 |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | QUOTATIONS BY THE NUMBER $2000: Shakespeare:
"And one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being ____ ages" 7 |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | BLANK "UM" $400: On TLC Theresa Caputo, who claims to talk to dead people, is the "Long Island" this medium |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | BLANK "UM" $800: It's a retail store that sells a variety of items like the one at Disneyland that sells hats, pins, snacks, etc. an emporium |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | BLANK "UM" $1200: Beware that the pretty flower seen here yields this opium |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | BLANK "UM" $1600: A glass-enclosed sun room a solarium |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | BLANK "UM" $2000: These 2 metallic elements that start with "C" differ by only a letter cerium & cesium |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | PAINTING & SCULPTURE $400: After this portrait was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, mourners lined up to see the blank space on the wall the Mona Lisa |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $200: Give it a try:
"Nothing ventured, nothing ____" gained |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $400: From Henny Youngman:
"Take my ____, please! " wife |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $600: A proverb:
"You can't make a ____ ____ out of a sow's ear" a silk purse |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $800: Much ado about nothing:
"A ____ in a teapot" a tempest |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $1000: The simplest explanation is preferred:
"____'s razor" Occam |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | THE ____ OF ____ $200: This Washington, D.C. landmark's Thomas Jefferson building houses its main reading room the Library of Congress |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | INTERNATIONAL FILM DIRECTORS $1200: "For a Few Dollars More"
(1965) (Sergio) Leone |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | REALITY TV HOSTS $600: Padma Lakshmi Top Chef |
| #7103, aired 2015-07-01 | THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT A MAN IN UNIFORM $2,200 (Daily Double): He was captured here in his band uniform John Philip Sousa |
| #7093, aired 2015-06-17 | PUZZLERS $1600: Close range point-blank |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | BRIT LIT $400: Christopher Marlowe gained fame for blank verse, iambic pentameter that doesn't do this rhyme |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | DOCUMENTS $1,400 (Daily Double): This 2-word term for freedom of action is used of a 1914 message from Germany to Austria about attacking Serbia blank check (or carte blanche) |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | THE END OF THE LINE $2,000 (Daily Double): "The very first requirement in a hospital (is) that it should do the sick ____" no harm |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | WHAT DAY IS IT? $200: Charlotte Bronte wrote, "unromantic as ____ morning" Monday |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | WHAT DAY IS IT? $1000: Wimpy in "Popeye" will gladly pay you ____ for a hamburger today Tuesday |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | THE BIG BLANK THEORY $200: Big ____:
London attraction since 1859 Ben |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | THE BIG BLANK THEORY $400: Big ____:
Alcor & Mizar are in its handle Dipper |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | THE BIG BLANK THEORY $600: Big ____:
To Philip Marlowe, it was death Sleep |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | THE BIG BLANK THEORY $800: Big ____:
A Callaway club Bertha |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | THE BIG BLANK THEORY $1000: Big ____:
Nazi coinage for propaganda so outrageous it gets believed Lie |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | THE ALL-WRITERS BASKETBALL TEAM $800: 6'9'' from Harvard, this man who wrote thrillers under the name John Lange (Lange is "tall" in German) Michael Crichton |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | LITERARY SHIPPING $1,000 (Daily Double): In a C.S. Forester novel, Charlie Allnutt pilots this title craft on the Ulanga River The African Queen |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | FAMOUS VOICES $2,000 (Daily Double): In his 1988 autobiography, he dispelled the allergy rumor but said that he wasn't really fond of carrots Mel Blanc |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $200: Take advantage, "make ____ while the sun shines" hay |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $400: No way, no how, "not for all the tea in ____" China |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $600: Time flies, in Latin, "____ ____" tempus fugit |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | ELIZABETHAN PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Thomas Kyd helped establish the unrhyming form called this verse on the English stage blank verse |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $800: From Ben Franklin:
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are ____" dead |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $1000: From Proverbs 11, "He that troubleth his own house shall ____ ____ ____" inherit the wind |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | A CASE OF WRITER'S BLOCK $2,800 (Daily Double): A big-time block (& maybe a lot of partying) delayed "Answered Prayers" by this "non-fiction novelist" Truman Capote |
| #6681, aired 2013-10-07 | INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $400: This Robert Ludlum mystery man first appears floating in the Mediterranean & suffering from amnesia (Jason) Bourne |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | FILL IN THE NONFICTION BLANK $400: Howard Stern:
"Private ___" Parts |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | FILL IN THE NONFICTION BLANK $800: Joseph Campbell:
"The Hero with a Thousand ___" Faces |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | FILL IN THE NONFICTION BLANK $1200: James D. Watson:
"The Double ___" Helix |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | FILL IN THE NONFICTION BLANK $1600: Will & Ariel Durant:
"The Story of ___" Civilization |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | FILL IN THE NONFICTION BLANK $2000: L. Ron Hubbard:
"___: the Modern Science of Mental Health" Dianetics |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | AS THEMSELVES ON TV $800: This "wizard" of a young actor got a painful lesson in grammar from Dame Diana Rigg on "Extras" Daniel Radcliffe |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Site of the U.S. Military Academy from which a shot is fired at very close range West Point blank |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | GO "C" THE COUNTRY $1000: This island in the West Indies is 777 miles long but no more than 119 miles wide Cuba |
| #6633, aired 2013-06-19 | BLANK VERSE $200: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a ___ in the sun?" raisin |
| #6633, aired 2013-06-19 | BLANK VERSE $400: "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have ___ to keep" promises |
| #6633, aired 2013-06-19 | BLANK VERSE $600: "___! ___! Burning bright in the forests of the night" Tyger, Tyger |
| #6633, aired 2013-06-19 | BLANK VERSE $800: "O ___! My ___! Our fearful trip is done" captain |
| #6633, aired 2013-06-19 | BLANK VERSE $1000: "I died for beauty--but was scarce adjusted in the tomb, when one who died for ___, was lain in an adjoining room" truth |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ATLAS SHRUGGED $200: The Atlas' map of cellphone use by country has a "no data" blank space for this French territory in South America French Guiana |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | COMPUTER LINGO $1000: Send me that report as a PDF, this "format" portable document format |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | THE 6 SIMPLE MACHINES $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew operates a doorknob.) It's hard turning just the post of a doorknob, but put the knob on, & it's now the simple machine known as the wheel & this axle |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | GEORGE, UHHH... $400: I've gone blank...he was born Eric Blair & wrote that book about barnyard animals that overthrow their human masters George Orwell |
| #6498, aired 2012-12-12 | "G"EOGRAPHY $1200: I'm drawing a blank--just east of Detroit there's this city & its namesake "Farms", "Shores", "Woods" & "Park" Grosse Pointe |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $2000: Posed a series of oral or written questions quizzed |
| #6445, aired 2012-09-28 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $400: An iconic 1930 image:
"_____ Gothic" American |
| #6445, aired 2012-09-28 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $800: A group portrait by Rembrandt:
"The ____ ____ (The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq)" Night Watch |
| #6445, aired 2012-09-28 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $1200: Picasso cubed it:
"Les Demoiselles d'____" Avignon |
| #6445, aired 2012-09-28 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $1600: From 1912, more mechanical than nude:
"Nude Descending A _____, No. 2" a staircase |
| #6445, aired 2012-09-28 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $2000: Jacques-Louis David went stoic:
"The Oath Of The _____" Horatii |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | SHAKESPEARE $1000: Whether play or poem, blank verse or rhymed, the majority of Shakespeare's works are written in this meter iambic pentameter |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | ____ OF ____ $2000: A little south of the state of the same name, it's AKA the Sea of Cortez the Gulf of California |
| #6385, aired 2012-05-25 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $400: A fresco by Michelangelo: "The ___ Judgement" Last |
| #6385, aired 2012-05-25 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $800: A religious image from Gauguin: "The Vision After The Sermon (___ Wrestling With The Angel)" Jacob |
| #6385, aired 2012-05-25 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $1200: Full of Bosch's powerful images: "The Garden of Earthly ___" Delights |
| #6385, aired 2012-05-25 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $1600: Vermeer had the home-court advantage: "View of ___" Delft |
| #6385, aired 2012-05-25 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $2000: Parmigianino's masterpiece: "Madonna of the Long ___" Neck |
| #6369, aired 2012-05-03 | OH SO VERY LITERARY $4,000 (Daily Double): Unrhymed poetry of irregular meter & rhythm is known by this 2-word term free verse |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | NOVELTY SONG LYRICS $1,500 (Daily Double): 1984:
"My hope of winning sank, 'cause I got the Daily Double now, and then my mind went blank" "I Lost On Jeopardy" |
| #6344, aired 2012-03-29 | PHILOSOPHICAL METAPHORS $1200: Aristotle was among those who believed the mind begins as a blank slate, this phrase in Latin tabula rasa |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $200: It happened when I arrived in Hollywood: I came, I saw, I ___-ed I conquered |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $400: Important trio of possibilities at the races: win, place or ___ show |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $600: Everything I need: wine, ___ & song women |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $800: Describes me if Angelina Jolie ever needs any help: ready, ___ & able willing |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $1000: The "Jeopardy!" office on tape days: blood, toil, tears & ___ sweat |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | BLANK VERSE $200: John Keats:
"Beauty is ____, ____ beauty,--that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" truth |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | BLANK VERSE $400: Ogden Nash
"The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other, ____" milk |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | BLANK VERSE $600: Robert Frost:
"Two roads diverged in a yellow ____" wood |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | BLANK VERSE $800: Alexander Pope:
"Fools rush in where angels ____ ____ ____" fear to tread |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | BLANK VERSE $1,000 (Daily Double): Thomas Gray:
"The paths of glory lead but to the ____" grave |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | SIBLING REVELRY $1600: The dark comedy "Grosse Pointe Blank" starred this actor as an assassin & this sister of his as his office manager Joan & John Cusack |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | MUSICAL FILL IN THE BLANK $400: "Thoroughly Modern ____" Millie |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | MUSICAL FILL IN THE BLANK $800: "____ Drum Song" Flower |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | MUSICAL FILL IN THE BLANK $1200: "The Roar of the ____, the Smell of the Crowd" Greasepaint |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | MUSICAL FILL IN THE BLANK $1600: "The Boys From ____" (also a city in New York) Syracuse |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | MUSICAL FILL IN THE BLANK $2000: "110 in the ____" Shade |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | HOLIDAY FILL IN THE BLANK $200: The first Monday in September:
____ Day Labor |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | HOLIDAY FILL IN THE BLANK $400: Bastille Day:
____ 14 July |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | HOLIDAY FILL IN THE BLANK $600: December 26 to January 1, since 1966:
____ Kwanzaa |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | HOLIDAY FILL IN THE BLANK $800: November 30, in Scotland:
St. ____'s Day Andrew |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | HOLIDAY FILL IN THE BLANK $1000: A few days before Easter:
Maundy ____ Thursday |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | FOOTBALL: 20-10 $1000: Owner Arthur Blank said, "It feels great" as a Jan. 2010 win put this team over .500 for 2 straight years, a first Atlanta Falcons |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | THE STATE NAME $800: ...with 2 Ks Kentucky |
| #6035, aired 2010-12-03 | FILL IN THE (BLANK) $400: "How do I love thee?
Let me (blank) the ways" count |
| #6035, aired 2010-12-03 | FILL IN THE (BLANK) $800: "Give me your tired, your poor, your (blank) masses yearning to breathe free" huddled |
| #6035, aired 2010-12-03 | FILL IN THE (BLANK) $1200: "All in the valley of (blank) rode the six hundred" death |
| #6035, aired 2010-12-03 | FILL IN THE (BLANK) $1,400 (Daily Double): "What evil looks had I from old and young instead of the cross the (blank) about my neck was hung" the albatross |
| #6035, aired 2010-12-03 | FILL IN THE (BLANK) $1600: "(blank) to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine" drink |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | I GIVE YOU AN "NCH" $1000: I'm going to give you this 2-word French term that means "blank document" carte blanche |
| #5943, aired 2010-06-16 | PHILOSOPHERS $800: The argument that the mind at birth is a blank slate is "key" to his 1690 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" John Locke |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | BIBLICAL PROVERBS: FILL IN THE BLANK $200: "To the hungry soul every bitter thing is ____" sweet |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | BIBLICAL PROVERBS: FILL IN THE BLANK $400: "The ____ is servant to the lender" borrower |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | BIBLICAL PROVERBS: FILL IN THE BLANK $600: "As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is ____ news from a far country" good |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | BIBLICAL PROVERBS: FILL IN THE BLANK $1000: "Pride goeth before ____" (& don't say "a fall") destruction |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | BIBLICAL PROVERBS: FILL IN THE BLANK $2,000 (Daily Double): "Lust not after her beauty in thine ____" heart |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | MOVIE TITLE FILL IN THE BLANK $400: "The _____ Bride" & "The _____ and the Frog" Princess |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | MOVIE TITLE FILL IN THE BLANK $800: " _____ " & " ____ in the Air" Up |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | MOVIE TITLE FILL IN THE BLANK $1200: "A Serious _____ " & "A Single _____ " Man |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | MOVIE TITLE FILL IN THE BLANK $1600: "The _____ Victoria" & " _____ Guns" Young |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | MOVIE TITLE FILL IN THE BLANK $2000: "The Last _____ " & "The _____ Agent" Station |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | MYTHTER & MYTHUS $600: Cupid & her Psyche |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | FACIAL EXPRESSIONS $400: This word meaning "empty" or "to be filled in" describes a vacant type of stare blank |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV $600: This 5-time Oscar nominee played captain Monica Rawling for a season on "The Shield" Glenn Close |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $400: "Come live with me and be my ____" love |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $800: "What happens to a dream ____? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" deferred |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $1200: "Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the ____ though" village |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $1600: "I hear America singing, the varied ____ I hear" carols |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $2000: "____ boy, with cheek of tan!" Barefoot |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | FRENCH CROSSWORD CLUES $800: High fashion
(5, 7) haute couture |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | EXCLAMATION "POINT"! $2000: Hyphenated term for being so close to a target that the projectile travels in a straight line to it point-blank |
| #5732, aired 2009-07-07 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $400: Hieronymous Bosch:
"The Garden of Earthly __" Delights |
| #5732, aired 2009-07-07 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $800: Edouard Manet:
"Luncheon on the ___" Grass |
| #5732, aired 2009-07-07 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $1600: Francisco Goya:
"The Third of ___, 1808" May |
| #5732, aired 2009-07-07 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $2000: Paul Gauguin:
"The Vision After the Sermon (___ Wrestling with the Angel)" Jacob |
| #5732, aired 2009-07-07 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $6,000 (Daily Double): Henri Rousseau:
"The ___Gypsy" Sleeping |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | FAMOUS PAIRS $800: Encyclopedia publishers:
Funk & ____ Wagnalls |
| #5628, aired 2009-02-11 | A DAY AT THE MUSEUM $3,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Bilbao, Spain.) Bilbao is in the area named for this Pyrenees people; take a look at an example of the museum's works by Eduardo Chillida, one of this peoples' finest artists the Basques |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | NOVELIST/POETS $4,000 (Daily Double): Esther attempts suicide in this, the only novel by its poet author The Bell Jar |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | FRANCHISES $1000: Food that fills in the blank in "The Great Steak & _____ Company" Potato |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | GEOGRAPHY $3,000 (Daily Double): These 2 republics united in 1964 to form Tanzania Tanganyika & Zanzibar |
| #5428, aired 2008-03-26 | SOMEBODY WROTE THAT $800: "The Brethren",
"The Street Lawyer" (John) Grisham |
| #5409, aired 2008-02-28 | LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "S" $2000: "Quentin Durward" creator
(5) Sir Walter Scott |
| #5394, aired 2008-02-07 | ARNOLD $600: Inspired by his years in India, Sir Edwin Arnold's blank-verse epic "The Light of Asia" told of this religion founder Buddha |
| #5392, aired 2008-02-05 | "TOO" MUCH $600: It's a small porch on the front of the house a stoop |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | BOOK KNOWLEDGE $1000: Entomological name for a blank page at the start of a book, suitable for inscriptions the fly (or the fly leaf) |
| #5255, aired 2007-06-15 | GEOLOGY $600: In the 5th century B.C., Empedocles argued that everything that exists can be reduced to these 4 elements earth, air, water & fire |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | SARAH-DIPITY $2,000 (Daily Double): Mel Torme said this jazz great had "the single best vocal instrument of any singer... in the popular field" Sarah Vaughan |
| #5210, aired 2007-04-13 | LITERARY FILL IN THE BLANK $200: Dumas:
"'I may not be a ____ yet, but at least I've been privileged to fight in your ranks'" Musketeer |
| #5210, aired 2007-04-13 | LITERARY FILL IN THE BLANK $400: Malory:
"And right as Arthur did at Christmas, he did at Candlemas, and pulled out the ____ easily" sword |
| #5210, aired 2007-04-13 | LITERARY FILL IN THE BLANK $600: Du Maurier:
"Last night I dreamed I went to ____ again." Manderley |
| #5210, aired 2007-04-13 | LITERARY FILL IN THE BLANK $800: Burroughs:
"'Well! Tarzan... does not this... book clear up... your parentage? Why, man, you are Lord ____'" Greystoke |
| #5210, aired 2007-04-13 | LITERARY FILL IN THE BLANK $2,000 (Daily Double): Hemans:
"The boy stood on the burning ____, whence all but he had fled" deck |
| #5181, aired 2007-03-05 | IN THE DICTIONARY $2000: A skeptic denies that anything can be known while a radical one of these denies that anything exists nihilist |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | THE MOOR $600: This country south of Morocco derives its name from the word "moor" Mauritania |
| #5100, aired 2006-11-10 | BESTSELLERS $800: This controversial bestseller by Dan Brown begins with a murder in the Louvre The Da Vinci Code |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | ALLITERATIVE FILL IN THE BLANK $400: Poe:
"Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered ____ and ____" weak & weary |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | ALLITERATIVE FILL IN THE BLANK $800: William Blake:
"Tyger! Tyger! _____ _____ in the forests of the night" burning bright |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | ALLITERATIVE FILL IN THE BLANK $1200: Coleridge:
"____, ____ everywhere and all the
boards did shrink" water, water |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | ALLITERATIVE FILL IN THE BLANK $1600: Robert Burns:
"O, my luve's like a
___, ___ ___ that's newly sprung in June" red, red rose |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | ALLITERATIVE FILL IN THE BLANK $2000: Frost:
"The woods are lovely, ___ and ___ / But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep" dark & deep |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | FILL IN THE OPERATIC BLANK $400: Rossini:
"William ____" Tell |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | FILL IN THE OPERATIC BLANK $800: Wagner:
"The Ring of the ____" Niebelung |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | FILL IN THE OPERATIC BLANK $1200: Mussorgsky:
"Boris ____" Godunov |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | FILL IN THE OPERATIC BLANK $1600: Mozart:
"____ fan tutte" Così |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | FILL IN THE OPERATIC BLANK $2000: Beethoven:
"____" Fidelio |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | FILL IN THE BLANK $200: Bald _____ eye eagle |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | FILL IN THE BLANK $400: Half _____ Alaska baked |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | FILL IN THE BLANK $600: Cherchez _____ Nikita la femme |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | FILL IN THE BLANK $800: Breeder's _____ holder Cup |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | FILL IN THE BLANK $1000: Indian _____ sausage summer |
| #4948, aired 2006-03-01 | PHILOSOPHY $1600: In "Essay Concerning Human Understanding", he argued that we're born with a blank slate, with no innate ideas John Locke |
| #4905, aired 2005-12-30 | POETIC FILL IN THE BLANK $400: Robert Frost:
"Stopping by woods on a snowy ____" evening |
| #4905, aired 2005-12-30 | POETIC FILL IN THE BLANK $800: 1618, John Donne:
"____, be not proud" Death |
| #4905, aired 2005-12-30 | POETIC FILL IN THE BLANK $1200: 1839, a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow title:
"The Village ____" Blacksmith |
| #4905, aired 2005-12-30 | POETIC FILL IN THE BLANK $1600: 1871, Lewis Carroll:
"The Walrus and the ____" Carpenter |
| #4905, aired 2005-12-30 | POETIC FILL IN THE BLANK $2000: 1842, Robert Browning:
"My Last ____" Duchess |
| #4864, aired 2005-11-03 | A LA "CART" $600: Literally "blank document", it's the 2-word French term for unconditional authority carte blanche |
| #4831, aired 2005-09-19 | ART TECHNIQUE $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows off a blank canvas.) This step in prepping a canvas doesn't mean measuring; it means adding a layer of glue so the paint doesn't sink in & lose its color to size your canvas |
| #4816, aired 2005-07-11 | "S"ENTIAL KNOWLEDGE $200: The telenovela is the Latin-American version of this U.S. form a soap opera |
| #4811, aired 2005-07-04 | LITERARY QUOTES $800: (1300s)
"Turn, Beatrice!
...O turn thy saintly sight on this thy faithful one" The Divine Comedy |
| #4786, aired 2005-05-30 | YOU'RE FIRED! $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1978 Handy Dan Hardware axed Arthur Blank--but he did okay, co-founding this chain in Atlanta Home Depot |
| #4739, aired 2005-03-24 | PLAYING THE BUFFOON $400: In a 1960 comedy, a bumbling Jerry Lewis has this title job at the Fontainebleau Hotel The Bellboy |
| #4734, aired 2005-03-17 | LITERARY QUOTES $600: Portia: "Then must the Jew be merciful"; Shylock: "On what compulsion must I?..."; Portia: this famous line The quality of mercy is not strain'd |
| #4573, aired 2004-06-23 | MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING $1000: Some psychologists believe babies are born with a tabula rasa, meaning this a blank slate |
| #4400, aired 2003-10-24 | MECCA $2000: In Scrabble you can use a blank tile to make this 4-letter word for a pilgrimage to Mecca Hajj |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | POP MUSIC PAIRINGS $600: ...& the Blackhearts Joan Jett |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | ENGLISH LESSON $800: Meter for blank verse & 5 disposable pens iambic pentameter |
| #4222, aired 2002-12-31 | GAME SHOW FORMATS $800: 2 contestants try to duplicate the answers given by 6 celebrities to funny fill-in-the-blank sentences The Match Game |
| #4157, aired 2002-10-01 | LET THE GAMES BEGIN $1200: In a standard set of this popular game, the tiles range from double blank to double six dominoes |
| #4050, aired 2002-03-22 | THE 3 $1,200 (Daily Double): The 3 Shakespeare plays whose titles are the names of famous couples Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida & Antony and Cleopatra |
| #3988, aired 2001-12-26 | FILL IN THE BLANK STATE NICKNAMES $200: Arizona: Grand ____ State Canyon |
| #3988, aired 2001-12-26 | FILL IN THE BLANK STATE NICKNAMES $400: Michigan: _____ Lakes State Great |
| #3988, aired 2001-12-26 | FILL IN THE BLANK STATE NICKNAMES $600: Texas: ____ Star State Lone |
| #3988, aired 2001-12-26 | FILL IN THE BLANK STATE NICKNAMES $800: Missouri: Show __ State Me |
| #3988, aired 2001-12-26 | FILL IN THE BLANK STATE NICKNAMES $1000: Alabama: _____ of Dixie Heart |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | FRANCHISES $1000: Food that fills in the blank in "The Great Steak & ____ Company" Potato |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $100: "A thing of ____ is a joy forever: its loveliness increases" beauty |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $200: "In a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of ____ ____" Annabel Lee |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $300: "____ ____ comes on little cat feet" The fog |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $400: "Do I dare to eat a ____? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach" peach |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $500: "Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me--The carriage held but just Ourselves & ____" immortality |
| #3919, aired 2001-09-20 | ROBERT REDFORD ROLES $1000: TV news director Warren Justice Up Close and Personal |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | FILL IN THE BLANK-ISTAN $200: In 1979 the USSR invaded this country to help support the government against the Mujahideen Afghanistan |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | FILL IN THE BLANK-ISTAN $400: This country's 4 provinces are Baluchistan, the Northwest Frontier, Sindh, & Punjab Pakistan |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | FILL IN THE BLANK-ISTAN $600: Ut follows Uruguay on an alphabetical list of the world's independent countries Uzbekistan |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | FILL IN THE BLANK-ISTAN $800: Ankara is the capital of Turkey and Ashgabat is the capital of this country Turkmenistan |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | FILL IN THE BLANK-ISTAN $1,000 (Daily Double): This area partly in Iraq is name for an ethnic group treated brutally by Saddam Hussein Kurdistan |
| #3866, aired 2001-05-28 | "AND" $200: It's the first symbol in the censored word &*$%! ampersand |
| #3857, aired 2001-05-15 | WARS BY BATTLE $500: 1461:
Towton, Yorkshire the Wars of the Roses |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | PARTS OF THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH $1000: It makes the red ink & furnishes blank paper to all the agencies the GPO (the Government Printing Office) |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | FAMOUS ARTS $800 (Daily Double): Born in 1895, he made the diagram seen here part of American culture
(dance steps) Arthur Murray |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | FILL IN THE BIBLICAL BLANK $200: Isaiah 53:7 -- "He is brought as a lamb to the ____" Slaughter |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | FILL IN THE BIBLICAL BLANK $400: 1 John 4:8 -- "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is ____" Love |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | FILL IN THE BIBLICAL BLANK $600: Genesis 4:15 -- "And the Lord set a mark upon ____" Cain |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | FILL IN THE BIBLICAL BLANK $800: Mark 2:9 -- "Arise, and take up thy bed, and ____" Walk |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | FILL IN THE BIBLICAL BLANK $1000: 1 Corinthians 15:26 -- "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is ____" Death |
| #3574, aired 2000-03-02 | IN 2 WORDS $400: If you're given full discretionary power, you've been given this, French for "blank document" carte blanche |
| #3543, aired 2000-01-19 | ANAGRAMMED CABINET DEPARTMENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Idea count Education |
| #3443, aired 1999-07-21 | SHAKESPEARE $700 (Daily Double): The maiden name of Shakespeare's mother, or the forest where he set much of "As You Like It" Arden |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | GAME SHOWS $800: Michael Berger, the host of "Personals" in 1991, hosts the revival of this celebrity fill-in-the-blank show Match Game |
| #3391, aired 1999-05-10 | FILL IN THE (BLANK) $100: "Good night, good night! (blank) is such sweet sorrow" Parting |
| #3391, aired 1999-05-10 | FILL IN THE (BLANK) $200: "'Tis better to have loved and (blank) than never to have loved at all" Lost |
| #3391, aired 1999-05-10 | FILL IN THE (BLANK) $300: "To (blank) is human, to forgive divine" Err |
| #3391, aired 1999-05-10 | FILL IN THE (BLANK) $400: "Cast thy (blank) upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days" Bread |
| #3391, aired 1999-05-10 | FILL IN THE (BLANK) $500: "I love thee to the depth and breadth and (blank) my soul can reach" Height |
| #3384, aired 1999-04-29 | GIGI $400: This beauty from Budapest appeared in the film "Gigi" before she moved to "Green Acres" Eva Gabor |
| #3313, aired 1999-01-20 | UNESCO $1,000 (Daily Double): In March 1998 UNESCO took offense at the atrocities of the Taliban in this country Afghanistan |
| #3305, aired 1999-01-08 | WHO CREATED THEM? $1,000 (Daily Double): Coalhouse Walker, Jr.,
Daniel Lewin,
Billy Bathgate E.L. Doctorow |
| #3286, aired 1998-12-14 | MADE OF CLAY $400: Daniel interpreted this king's dream about a disturbing idol with feet of clay Nebuchadnezzar |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | ANAGRAMMED THEORETICAL PHYSICISTS $500 (Daily Double): PHONE EMPIRE (J. Robert) Oppenheimer |
| #3282, aired 1998-12-08 | "LAND"s OF THE WORLD $900 (Daily Double): It's the only U.S. state that fits the category Maryland (or Rhode Island) |
| #3260, aired 1998-11-06 | MUSICAL THEATER $4,000 (Daily Double): This musical about a group of auditioning dancers features the songs "I Hope I Get It" & "One" A Chorus Line |
| #3242, aired 1998-10-13 | I DUNNO $200: "To draw" this is said to have originally referred to a non-winning lottery ticket A blank |
| #3212, aired 1998-07-14 | '90s MOVIES $400: Actor seen here who co-wrote & co-produced as well as starred in the film: John Cusack |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | JOHN CUSACK MOVIES $1000: Cusack starred with Minnie Driver in this 1997 movie about a Michigan high school reunion Grosse Pointe Blank |
| #3085, aired 1998-01-16 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $200: In the 1850s this British female poet wrote a blank verse novel called "Aurora Leigh" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | FILL IN THE BLANK $100: House____
Horse____
Tsetse____ fly |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | FILL IN THE BLANK $200: Lemon____
Rain____
Cough____ drop |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | FILL IN THE BLANK $300: Saddle____
Sleeping____
Punching____ bag |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | FILL IN THE BLANK $400: Presidential____
Rat____
Drag____ race |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | FILL IN THE BLANK $500: Fountain____
Bull____
Pig____ pen |
| #2977, aired 1997-07-08 | OPERETTAS $900 (Daily Double): The 1879 operetta about this title group ends with the song heard here: The Pirates of Penzance |
| #2937, aired 1997-05-13 | POETS & POETRY $800: You might read this New Englander's blank verse play "A Masque of Reason" "On A Snowy Evening" Robert Frost |
| #2900, aired 1997-03-21 | MILITARY GOVERNORS $600: Term for the military governor of Japan; the last one resigned in 1867 Shogun |
| #2587, aired 1995-11-28 | ART $2,000 (Daily Double): This art movement begun in Zurich in 1916 was named for a French word meaning "hobbyhorse" dada (dadaism) |
| #2536, aired 1995-09-18 | THEATRE $1,700 (Daily Double): This Southerner's play "Tiger Tail" is a reworking of his screenplay for the Carroll Baker film "Baby Doll" Tennessee Williams |
| #2535, aired 1995-09-15 | TWAIN $500: Twain was on the staff of this Nevada town's Territorial Enterprise Virginia City |
| #2523, aired 1995-07-19 | FILE UNDER "D" $200: A set of these game tiles has all the combinations from double blank to double six dominoes |
| #2375, aired 1994-12-23 | DECEMBER 25 $500 (Daily Double): In 1989 Bernstein conducted Beethoven's 9th at a celebration of this landmark's destruction the Berlin Wall |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | BLANKETY-BLANK $100: It's the movement of a rabbit across a field hippety-hop |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | BLANKETY-BLANK $200: It's the sound of a horse trotting down a paved road clippety-clop |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | BLANKETY-BLANK $300: "I went to market to buy a fat pig" & went home again this way jiggety-jig |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | BLANKETY-BLANK $400: Gab incessantly about a Coasters hit song yakety-yak |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | BLANKETY-BLANK $500: Merriam Webster traces this phrase for "at great speed" back to about 1859 lickety-split |
| #2351, aired 1994-11-21 | HEMINGWAY BOOKS $700 (Daily Double): He drew on his World War II experience looking for German submarines for this novel published in 1970 "Islands in the Stream" |
| #2332, aired 1994-10-25 | HOLLYWOOD HODGEPODGE $200: He & his brother Roy opened their 1st Hollywood studio in 1923; it wasn't much bigger than a mouse hole the Disney brothers (Walt and Roy) |
| #2286, aired 1994-07-11 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: In late 1990 34 European & North American nations signed the Charter of Paris, officially ending this "War" Cold War |
| #2267, aired 1994-06-14 | SHAKESPEARE $600: "The Merry Wives of Windsor" is only about 10% this kind of verse blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) |
| #2213, aired 1994-03-30 | WHITE $100: Latin for "a white tablet", it's a blank book in which you paste mementos or photos an album |
| #2184, aired 1994-02-17 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $700 (Daily Double): The pennyweight is a unit in this system used to measure precious metals the troy system |
| #2182, aired 1994-02-15 | ENGLISH LIT. $400: In the 1500s the Earl of Surrey introduced this kind of unrhymed verse into English literature blank verse |
| #2020, aired 1993-05-21 | SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "body", it's a free-moving cell such as an erythrocyte or leukocyte a corpuscle |
| #2002, aired 1993-04-27 | IRELAND $1,500 (Daily Double): The library at this college is home to many rare works, including the 8th century Book of Kells Trinity College (the University of Dublin) |
| #1990, aired 1993-04-09 | ORIGINAL "SYN" $600 (Daily Double): "Syn" word in the title of the following:
[Instrumental music plays.] syncopated |
| #1920, aired 1993-01-01 | ANTONYMS $2,000 (Daily Double): By changing the first letter of "fire", you get this antonym hire |
| #1883, aired 1992-11-11 | HODGEPODGE $200: In a standard set of dominoes, the tiles range from double blank to this double number 6 |
| #1858, aired 1992-10-07 | THEATRE $400: John Dryden wrote his 1677 play "All For Love" in this kind of verse also favored by Shakespeare iambic pentameter (blank verse) |
| #1765, aired 1992-04-10 | PLANTS & TREES $800 (Daily Double): Much of the lumber that shows this tree's "bird's-eye" pattern comes from N. Michigan maple |
| #1737, aired 1992-03-03 | "B" IN LITERATURE $400: 16th century authors wrote poems & plays in this type of unrhymed verse blank verse |
| #1644, aired 1991-10-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: 1 of 2 Thomas Harris best sellers that feature Hannibal the Cannibal The Silence of the Lambs (or Red Dragon) |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: This author's father, a London schoolmaster, was the model for Mr. Chips James Hilton |
| #1594, aired 1991-07-04 | SICKNESS & HEALTH $500 (Daily Double): Medical specialty named for the glands it treats such as the adrenals endocrinology |
| #1593, aired 1991-07-03 | THE HUMAN BODY $500 (Daily Double): Gastric juice in the stomach consists of the enzyme pepsin & this acid hydrochloric acid or HCl |
| #1582, aired 1991-06-18 | SPORTS NICKNAMES $300: "Crazy Legs" Elroy Hirsch |
| #1547, aired 1991-04-30 | MEDICAL HISTORY $1,300 (Daily Double): In 1977, this new procedure to reopen diseased arteries was developed angioplasty |
| #1515, aired 1991-03-15 | THE COMICS $200: Harold Gray never explained why he gave her blank eyes Little Orphan Annie |
| #1469, aired 1991-01-10 | BOOKS ON TAPE $1,000 (Daily Double): He's the narrator of his own searing account of survival, "Born on the 4th of July" Ron Kovic |
| #1374, aired 1990-07-19 | ANIMALS $1,000 (Daily Double): These 2 prehistoric ancestors of elephants both had long tusks that curved upward mastodons & mammoths |
| #1368, aired 1990-07-11 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Prior to the Battle of the Little Bighorn, he had a vision of soldiers falling into the Indian camp Sitting Bull |
| #1309, aired 1990-04-19 | LITERATURE $1000: His eccentric novel "Tristram Shandy" contains blank pages & 1-sentence chapters Laurence Sterne |
| #1222, aired 1989-12-19 | U.S."A"s $300: Though fined $100 for voting in New York, she never paid it Susan B. Anthony |
| #1146, aired 1989-09-04 | "C.C." $100 (Daily Double): The song heard here is the only No. 1 hit this group has had in the U.S.:
"Desert loving in your eyes all the way / If I listened to your lies would you say..." Culture Club |
| #1144, aired 1989-07-20 | LITERARY TERMS $400: This type of verse is also called unrhymed iambic pentameter blank verse |
| #1133, aired 1989-07-05 | NEW ENGLAND $800: On landing in the Cape Cod area in April 1614, this founder of Virginia gave New England its name Captain John Smith |
| #1021, aired 1989-01-30 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR $400: Though a symbol of the war, this organization of citizen-soldiers existed only for about 6 months MInutemen |
| #996, aired 1988-12-26 | THE '50s $200: In exile, he told Argentine followers to cast blank ballots in a 1957 election, & they did (Juan) Peron |
| #931, aired 1988-09-26 | MOVIE THEMES $100: [This piece of music--listen to it, players:] (the theme from) Star Wars |
| #931, aired 1988-09-26 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $400: Sales of Wilbur Blank's 40-yr.-old peeler for this fruit took off after Andy Rooney praised it on TV orange |
| #912, aired 1988-07-19 | NUMBER, PLEASE $400: Total of all the points on all the stars on the American flag 250 |
| #848, aired 1988-04-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $500: Gene Fowler said writing is easy: "All you do is stare at" this "until drops of blood form on your forehead" the page (blank sheet of paper) |
| #815, aired 1988-03-04 | PHILOSOPHY $400: John Locke believed that the mind at birth was a "tabula rasa", which translates to this a blank slate |
| #773, aired 1988-01-06 | TV TRIVIA $500 (Daily Double): 3 of the 5 Huxtable kids (3 of) Theo, Denise, Sondra, Vanessa, & Rudy |
| #771, aired 1988-01-04 | PRESIDENTS $1,200 (Daily Double): 2 of only 3 presidents to attend college west of the Mississippi Lyndon Johnson & Richard Nixon (& Herbert Hoover) |
| #621, aired 1987-04-27 | TRANSPORTATION $400 (Daily Double): Group which topped the country charts with the following song about a truck driver:
[Truck noises]
"Roll on, highway /
Roll on along /
Roll on, Daddy, 'til you get back home /
Roll on family /
Roll on crew /
Roll on, Mama, like I asked you to do /
And roll on eighteen wheeler, roll on /
(Roll on!)..." Alabama |
| #606, aired 1987-04-06 | COMMERCIALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Long before she "shot J.R.", Mary Crosby made her acting debut in an ad for this product Minute Maid orange juice |
| #591, aired 1987-03-16 | HOW TO... $500: Strike a blank in a mint mint a coin |
| #549, aired 1987-01-15 | EUROPE $500: The 3 capital cities of Scandinavia Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen |
| #538, aired 1986-12-31 | THE JUNGLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Like most of us would, it's what Jethro Tull was doing "In The Jungle" in 1974:
"Walking through forests of palm-tree apartments /
Scoff at the monkeys who live in their dark tents /
Down by the waterhole--drunk every Friday /
Eating their nuts--saving their raisins..." Bungle |
| #521, aired 1986-12-08 | (blank) $100: Special type of ink spies use for secret messages invisible ink |
| #521, aired 1986-12-08 | (blank) $200: The "A" in "AWOL" absent |
| #521, aired 1986-12-08 | (blank) $300: Word which, when illuminated, lets you know there's room in the inn vacancy |
| #521, aired 1986-12-08 | (blank) $500 (Daily Double): Title of the following 1974 Billy Preston hit:
"I'm not trying to be your hero /
Cause that zero is too cold for me /
I'm not trying to be your highness..." "Nothing From Nothing" |
| #521, aired 1986-12-08 | (blank) $500: Beetle Bailey character who fits the category Zero |
| #487, aired 1986-10-21 | MOVIE TRIVIA $600 (Daily Double): In both these Oscar-winning films of 1939 & 1965, when the heroines needed clothes, it was curtains Gone with the Wind & The Sound of Music |
| #450, aired 1986-05-30 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: 3M is offering "blank" video cassettes with this pre-recorded on the tape promos (ads) |
| #428, aired 1986-04-30 | GAME SHOWS $800 (Daily Double): '60s show whose theme was the following; a clue would be Johnny the Arsonist likes to play blank
[Instrumental music plays] The Match Game |
| #417, aired 1986-04-15 | FASHION DESIGNERS $1000: Practicing punk style she "preaches", this middle-age English designer often dyes her own hair orange Zandra Rhodes |
| #404, aired 1986-03-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): Howard Hawks called it a "piece of junk", but got Hemingway to help adapt it for Bogey & Bacall To Have And Have Not |
| #392, aired 1986-03-11 | GAME SHOWS $200: Of "Blank Check", "Point Blank", & "Blankety Blanks", the 1 which wasn't a game show Point Blank |
| #355, aired 1986-01-17 | BEST SELLERS $100: Comprised of 192 of these, "The Nothing Book" sold over 300,000 copies in 1977 blank pages |
| #261, aired 1985-09-09 | FOREIGN CUISINE $100: No matter how you slice it, it's "brot" in Germany bread |
| #175, aired 1985-05-10 | "BIG" $500: Last great wilderness area of Texas, it's a national park by the Rio Grande Big Bend National Park |
| #175, aired 1985-05-10 | SIT-COMS $500: Where Judy Carne & Peter Duel found the heights of love from '66-'71 (on a) rooftop |
| #172, aired 1985-05-07 | SILLY SONGS $200: Hey! This guy he was so fine, he blew Toni Basil's mind Mickey |
| #170, aired 1985-05-03 | INVENTIONS $200: In 1832, William Hedley's "Puffing Billy" was on track as one of the first practical kinds of these a locomotive |
| #168, aired 1985-05-01 | 4-LETTER WORDS $200: A large lump or piece or Richard Gere a hunk |
| #166, aired 1985-04-29 | FICTIONAL HEROINES $300: Dumas' consumptive character played by Greta Garbo on film & Greta Scacchi on TV Camille |
| #159, aired 1985-04-18 | 5-LETTER WORDS $100: The space on the paper to be filled in blank |
| #159, aired 1985-04-18 | POTENT POTABLES $200: This peach-flavored bourbon is popular on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line Southern Comfort |
| #159, aired 1985-04-18 | RADIO $300: Los Angeles D.J. who took over the hosting job this season on TV's "Solid Gold" Rick Dees |
| #152, aired 1985-04-09 | COOKING $400: What happens to gravy when you add a little arrowroot it thickens |
| #149, aired 1985-04-04 | ART $200: It's a complete blank before a muralist starts painting a wall |
| #121, aired 1985-02-25 | SHIPS $200: Cargo ships with no set schedules or routes, they're the vagrants of shipping tramp steamer |
| #119, aired 1985-02-21 | '50s TV $500: We followed his adventures as Hiram Holliday Wally Cox |
| #117, aired 1985-02-19 | LITERATURE $800: French existentialist whose characters found "No Exit" from his '45 play Jean-Paul Sartre |
| #112, aired 1985-02-12 | TRIVIA $100: Teddy Roosevelt's companions who held reunions in Las Vegas, NM until 1969 the Rough Riders |
| #90, aired 1985-01-11 | AUTHORS $200: He based Robinson Crusoe on real-life castaway Alexander Selkirk (Daniel) Defoe |
| #88, aired 1985-01-09 | FASHION $400: Man's shoe topper attached by a strap spats |
| #87, aired 1985-01-08 | INITIALS $500: What you get in the Army if you get OJT on-the-job training |
| #86, aired 1985-01-07 | DIFFERENT BRIDGES $500 (Daily Double): Song for which the following is the musical bridge "MacArthur Park" |
| #70, aired 1984-12-14 | DINING OUT $200: If employed by Greyhound their motto might be "Leave the clearing to us" busboys |
| #9, aired 1984-09-20 | TRIVIA $200: Number of blank tiles in a Scrabble set 2 |
| #8, aired 1984-09-19 | BEST PICTURES $4,100 (Daily Double): Prior to its '68 win, Hollywood had filmed this Victorian novel 8 times before Oliver! |
| #7, aired 1984-09-18 | LITERARY QUOTES $500: It completes: "Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why..." Theirs but to do and die |
| #2, aired 1984-09-11 | STATE CAPITALS $100: Until 1875 its dual capitals were New Haven & Hartford Connecticut |
